Swaledale is in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. There are high hills at the head of valleys with evocative names such as Blea Barf, Great Shunner Fell and Rogan's Seat, which echo the voices of the Vikings who settled here over 1,000 years ago. Sparkling moorland streams cascade down the valley sides through pastures touched by a thousand shades of green. The River Swale, England's fastest flowing river, threads its way through a maze of fields dotted with stone barns and Swaledale sheep. The four seasons encompasses the vase and as it revolves one seasons blends into the next. Black and white sheep gambolling on the fields in Spring, sheep waiting to be shorn in Summer. Acorns are in abundance in Autumn and in Winter the snow covers the ground